Professor and activist for Public Health Education in the Americas and Asia
By: interviewed by Harriet Nathan in 1993-1994 for the University History Series, School of Public Health Oral Histories. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Nathan, Harriet.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1994
Subjects: University of California, Berkeley. School of Public Health.; Educators.; Public health -- United States.; West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs.
Description: California ranch life, early 1900s, Washoe Indians; secondary teaching certificates in mathematics, English, German, and Ph.D. in educational psychology, UC Berkeley; experiences as high school teacher, Elko, Nevada, and Alameda, California; University of Utah, 1926-1936: professor of educational psychology, developing a public health nursing system for the state, health surveys of American Indians in Utah and New Mexico; understanding religions, Hindu, Mormon, Methodist, Theosophy, and search for evidence; work with federal service agencies in the Depression era and WWII, and consequences of the Astoria (New York) School Health Study, 1936- 1940; Professor, Public Health Education, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, 1946-1957: creating Division of Public Health Education, and significance of the school's MPH alumni, worldwide; Inter-American Education Foundation, 1943-1946, Ecuador and Peru; public health education in Panama and Brazil, 1950s; malaria in Jamaica and Turkey, 1959-1960; family planning work in India and Pakistan, 1960s; thoughts on group process in public health education; daughter Marie Nyswander's achievement in Methadone development; honors and awards.

Health education monographs, no. 22 containing "The open society: its implications for health educators" by Nyswander and October 1992 issue of Silver & Blue with a profile of Nyswander.